Letters to the Editor

Tired of rates reasoning

I am getting a bit sick of the Mayor's photo and carefully considered comments on our rates increases. His cronies back him up with glib assurances of their (the... Read More

Accident is inevitable

For the past 30 years there have been complaints about the stretch of road from the railway bridge to Kotuku Domain on Plummers Point road. Numerous suggestions... Read More

Buying local

The Mayor of Western Bay of Plenty, Garry Webber has been encouraging people to ‘Buy Local'. He thinks that given current circumstances, now more than ever... Read More

Water use figure incorrect

R Stewart (The Weekend Sun, May 8) makes wild comments that it takes 800 litres of water for a farmer to produce a litre of milk to a bottle. Let me use my personal... Read More

Challenged by the truth

J Shakespear in his letter (The Weekend Sun, May 8) does not seem to be as aware as he might be of the spread of Coronavirus. A recent report from Michael Melham,... Read More

The effect of cannabis

With the Government having prepared the information for the proposed law reform of the use of cannabis (also named marijuana or hashish or weed) for the referendum... Read More

Communist Party suspicions

The Chinese Communist Party is a regime known for its human rights abuses. In my opinion, the CCP was quite happy in January, after Chinese New Year, to let five... Read More

Making sacrifices

Interesting that almost everyone else has accepted the need for a reduction in salaries and a scaling back of future plans etc apart from every council in NZ. What... Read More

NZ controlled

Control and more control. This government is loving it! We went into Lockdown level 4; did we really need such control? Aussie have only operated at Level 3 and... Read More

Right from wrong

A call has gone out to support our farmers, yes support the dairy farms that use 800 litres plus, of clean water to produce just 1 litre of milk from paddock to... Read More

Globalisation doesn’t work

Considering Bill English's take on New Zealand recovery. In my opinion politicians should note the devastating results of the ‘Rogernomics debacle' of the... Read More

Rates should come down

Is it too much to ask the Mayor and his deputy to pull their heads out of the sand and see what's happening around them. In the words of Western Bay's Mayor, they... Read More